Becoming a better artist.

I wanted to make a post about becoming a better artist as a reference for myself. I have a long way to go before I can even begin giving advice about art. However, I read this article the other day on Deviantart.com and wanted to post it to my blog as a way to remember where I read this article. I find great stuff on the internet all the time at work, but never write it down. Then when I want to go back and reference it I can never find it again...anyhow, if this helps someone else along the way, even better!

Mas Cabezas!!

I tried another portrait based of a real photo with some dynamic shading. After the success I feel I had on Friday, I decided to make another attempt. This time I tried working at angle slightly to the side. I also wanted to draw a man's face. I don't think this one turned out quite as good as the last drawing I did, but I am happy with the way it turned out. As I begin shading these sketches I start to get nervous...afraid I am really going to mess something up. Anyway let me know what you think!

Oh yeah, here's the link for the reference.

Before I forget here are some Loomis heads I worked on today as well. Wish I hadn't tried to add shading to the one, can't stand it.

Star Wars

I did a sketch last night based on a tutorial for Ian McCain from the Star Wars edition of Imagine FX. It was a tutorial on how to paint Darth Maul from Episode I. While I didn't do the painting I did make an attempt at recreating the character with colored pencil. The other two unfinished faces are sketches I was trying to do at work today, again based on the book by Andrew Loomis. Cheers!

I worked on trying to replicate some heads done in the book by Jack Hamm. Those didn't turn out so well. I then tried to draw a portrait of some lady, photo taken from ShutterStock.  I know it doesn't match up perfectly with the reference photo, but I was so pleased with the result. As usual though the scanner seems to mess my drawings up a bit. All done with a ballpoint pen.

Perspective

I decided to change things up again, starting reading Andrew Loomis' book on drawing. Had a lot of good information surrounding perspective. Some sketches done while reading his book.

Rocks and a chain

Top from today, bottom from yesterday. Really enjoying using a pen. The last week or so, everything has been done using a regular ball point pen, it's a lot of fun. Of course making mistakes are harder to get rid of...=D

Drawings worked on over the last few days. I spent most of the weekend trying to paint up some jack-o-lanterns I drew, but I have been having a hard time figuring out how to "render" a picture in Photoshop. I may post up what I was able to do at a later time, in the mean time here is the latest.